Delivering mail with quadcopters may be silly, but the concept is being talked about for real.
Posted 04.01.2013 at 4:04 pm
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Extra! Extra!
Paper route of the future.
La Poste Group
April Fool's Day sucks, because people on the Internet say things that would be awesome if they were real, and sadly are not. For instance, I would love to be able to search smells. But this idea--which might be real, we aren't sure--is silly: Delivering the mail with drones that can fly for 20 minutes. I mean, most humans can last longer.
According to a news release today, drones are going postal in France. A pilotless pilot program in Auvergne, in central France, is reportedly working with drone-maker Parrot to use its quadrocopters as newspaper carriers.
La Poste Group has been “engaged for many years in an effort to modernize its delivery,” the agency explains in a blog post. Parrot is making a new drone for this task, according to La Poste.
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Technology, Rebecca Boyle, drones, france, future of journalism, newspapers, newsprint, parrot ar.droneDelivering the news par avion would help mail carriers avoid unfriendly dogs, apparently: “AR.postal Drone can easily reach remote areas, cross a fence, fly over dogs, or [reach] a high floor,” La Poste notes.
But there is one problem: These things can fly for, like, 20 minutes on a charge, which takes about an hour to 90 minutes to complete. So it's not exactly an efficient system.
While tiny single-paper quadcopter carriers are silly, the concept is nothing new, however. In the U.S., FedEx honchos have been vocal proponents of drone-assisted delivery, for instance. And drones could even be used to deliver food!
If there was a drone that could fly more than 150 feet for more than 20 minutes, maybe the U.S. Postal Service would do something similar. Drones don’t care about working on Saturdays, after all.
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Yea... YES, I like it! Now give this little drone more power lifting ability and I like my pizza please!
Once this little guy is with a meter or of my home, let it email my\text message me, “PIZZA HERE", then I open my door and receive my HOT pizza!
LOLz, then when you leave your phone in another room, You finally get the text 30 mins later to find the drone crashed into your door.
If this drone can deliver a newspaper, then a drone could deliver just about anything,what this is is the wave of the future,drone pizza deliveries,auto parts anything within reason.
Thats it gentleman e -mail you midflight!
with it's own computerized voice